[Debian-science-sagemath] pari-sage or pari ?

[Jeroen Demeyer]

On 2016-08-24 00:03, Julien Puydt wrote:
> There is a single standard ; here is what the maintainer guide says
> about modifying upstream's sources:
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/modify.en.html

That is just a howto. It doesn't explain any policy, it does not say 
when it is acceptable to patch upstream projects.

> Well, the attitude towards upstream is the real crux of the matter, but
> changing the names can certainly help.

Could you more concretely suggest what Sage could do to help here?

Especially because Debian can just change names: you already package the 
PARI-in-Sage as sage-pari. Why does it matter how Sage internally names 
its packages?


Jeroen.